about Los Quinchos with both the founder and director of the organization. I struggled to come up with a project that would help Los Quinchos hold their workers accountable for reading and working academically with the Yahoskas. Unfortunately they are limited to only 3-hours a day schooling. They can't spend all of their free time watching soap operas! With the library resources Nour and I have provided over the years, and the reading-workshop trainings we have modeled, they have the resources to increase academic rigor for these kids.I was frustrated to see that the books were not used on a daily basis. I shared this with Zelinda and Carlos Vidal in our hour and a half reflection/planning meeting. I proposed the development of a documentation system for the main Los Quinchos library, as well as the Yahoska library.
This system requires the educators to log their daily reading sessions with the children. Zelinda and Carlos really liked this idea, so I developed the spread sheets. They are 
currently being bound into accountability booklets (thanks Nour for taking the time to do that!). The educators (the employees who work at the Yahoska complex and the main Los Quinchos library) will need to document who is supervising reading time, the date, what time the library is opened, and what girls are present at the time of reading workshop. This system will allow Zelinda to know to what degree the academic resources are being utilized.
We also developed a concrete reading schedule for the girls - with an hour and a half of reading built into each day! Lets get reading!
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